Paper Title
Embodied Environmental Impacts of High-rise Residential Building in South Korea
Abstract
This study aims to evaluate the embodied environmental impacts of high-rise residential building in South Korea,
with focus on main building materials, as part of analytic research on a building’s life cycle environmental impact. To this end,
a high-rise residential building constructed in Bus an metro city, South Korea, was selected as an evaluation target, and the
quantity of five main building materials (i.e. ready-mixed concrete, rebar, concrete brick, cement, aluminum products) were
taken off. The embodied environmental impact factors of main building materials were established using a life cycle impact
assessment model. Then the embodied environmental impact of high-rise residential building was evaluated and analyzed the
evaluation results.
Index Terms - Embodied Environmental Impact, High-rise Residential Building, Life Cycle Assessment, Main Building
Material